Water-wheel



FFI@C J..D. ROBINSON, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

WATER-WHEEL.

To all whom 25 may concern.'

Be it known that I, J. D. ROBINSON, of the town and county of Peoria andState of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Vater-CurrentIVater-VVheel; and I do hereby declare that the following is a true andexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing, which forms a part of this specification, in which- Figure l,is an isometrical view. Fig. 2, is a vertical section.

The nature of my invention consists in forming a series of buckets on ahorizontal shaft or cylinder; said buckets being composed of narrowstrips fastened by a flexible connection to the shaft or cylinder.

The construction and operation are as follows: A cylinder er shaft (ce),is formed of any suitable materials, and is supported firmly in bearings(b), in which its gudgeons turn. Around the periphery of this cylinder,marked (a,) in the drawing the buckets are put, two or more being placedon a horizontal line parallel with each other and with a space betweenthem the width of a bucket. The buckets are formed of a series of narrowparallel slats (79,) fastened together at the edges and to the cylinderaforesaid by chains, links or joints (0,) which permit them to fold downaround the cylinder or stand out radially, both of which positions areshown in the drawings.

lV hen this wheel is placed in a stream at least one half or two thirdsof it should be under water `(and it may be entirely immersed) and asthe lower buckets hang down they willibe forced around by the current;in the meantime those that are above and folded around the shaft will beacted on by the water and forced o from the cylinder into the radialposition which enables them in turn to come into the direction to takethe force ofthe current; as they come up on the opposite side they hangin and fold around the cylinder.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim therein and desireto secure by Letters Patent is` The combination of the cylinder, andbuckets b, constructed and arranged in the manner and for the purposeabove described.

J. D. ROBINSON.

lVitnesses:

J. J. GBEENOUGH, T. O. DooRE.

